{"id":20990,"date":"2026-04-09T09:47:46","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T23:47:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.springvalleygolf.com.au\/cms\/?p=20990"},"modified":"2026-04-09T09:47:47","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T23:47:47","slug":"course-care-pitch-marks-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.springvalleygolf.com.au\/cms\/course-care-pitch-marks-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Course Care: Pitch Marks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It is everyone\u2019s responsibility to take care of the course and that involves repairing pitch marks where appropriate. If you require education on the proper way to repair a pitch mark, please see a member of our Golf Service Centre team for a short tutorial.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">If you, and every golfer correctly repaired two pitch marks on every green, how many would be left?\u00a0Zero.<\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">The difference is up to you.\u00a0 Fix yours, and the player ahead of you who swears it isn&#8217;t theirs!<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">If you repair a pitch mark badly it can actually do a lot more harm than if you had left it alone, so it&#8217;s essential you know how to do it correctly<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It\u2019s not just for the sake of the greens either, there is nothing more infuriating for a golfer than to see a\u00a0perfect putt knocked off line, especially through no fault of their own.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">But it is alarming how many golfers seemingly neglect to repair a\u00a0pitch mark,\u00a0don\u2019t know how to repair a pitch mark in the correct way, or perhaps think they are not allowed to because of the Rules of Golf.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">As you can see below, the end product of a badly repaired pitch mark is an ugly brown scar left on the green that not only looks awful, but that also affects the roll of yours and other peoples\u2019 putts.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6165\" src=\"https:\/\/www.flindersgolfclub.com.au\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/bad-pitch-mark.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"674\" height=\"506\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6164\" src=\"https:\/\/www.flindersgolfclub.com.au\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/good-pitch-mark.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"642\" height=\"514\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is everyone\u2019s responsibility to take care of the course and that involves repairing pitch marks where appropriate. If you require education on the proper way to repair a pitch mark, please see a member of our Golf Service Centre team for a short tutorial. If you, and every golfer correctly repaired two pitch marks&#8230; <a class=\"read_more_link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.springvalleygolf.com.au\/cms\/course-care-pitch-marks-3\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1436,"featured_media":8066,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[23,14,41,7,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-course-news","category-education","category-gsc-pro","category-latest-news","category-public-latest-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.springvalleygolf.com.au\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.springvalleygolf.com.au\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.springvalleygolf.com.au\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.springvalleygolf.com.au\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1436"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.springvalleygolf.com.au\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20990"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.springvalleygolf.com.au\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42384,"href":"https:\/\/www.springvalleygolf.com.au\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20990\/revisions\/42384"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.springvalleygolf.com.au\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.springvalleygolf.com.au\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.springvalleygolf.com.au\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.springvalleygolf.com.au\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}